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(1908) [MARC] [MARC] Author: William Gershom Collingwood With: Frederick York Powell
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is as Scandinavian as that of St. Vedast’s at
Norwich. These examples, to which more might be
added, shows how the settlers began to assimilate
themselves to the culture they found in England :
and as art goes hand-in-hand with manufacture and
trade, we may assume that the life of the settlers was
not all fighting and farming, when they came through
the initial period of trouble which we have now to
review.

Chester, though the ruins of the Roman station had
been seized and held by Hástein, was a place of no
importance at the beginning of the tenth century. The
Irish trade had not arisen ; White and Black Gaill
were still disputing Dublin, and the Danes of Mercia
did not see, as ealdorman Æthelred did, the value of
the position. In 907 or 908 he repaired the fortifications
and created the town, perhaps at that time
introducing the priory of St. Werburgh, a Mercian
dedication. This was the first step toward the great
work he undertook of strengthening English Mercia
against further encroachment, and of capturing the
land of the Five Boroughs.

The forward policy of Mercia developed into war.
There was fighting on both sides of Watling Street.
The Saxons raided over the border for five weeks;
the Danes fought them at Tettenhall near Wolverhampton,
and were beaten. Eadward went south to
fit out a fleet against the east coast, and the Danes
raided the Severn Valley, returning by way of Quatford
near Bridgnorth, where Hástein’s men had wintered,
and at Wednesfield another great victory was won by

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